Unilever has considently won awards and taken over my Facebook timeline with advertisements like the one above for Dove, in which women are forced to confront the low self-esteem embedded in their psyches byadvertisements.

Axe™ is a brand of male perfume named after the tool with which most women would like to strike the young men who adorn themselves with Axe™. FYI, gentlemen, Axe™ is now about
more than not getting laid.

I might be blowing your mind here, but did you guys know that Axe is totally a dude thing? Like, here's how it works: you spray on some Axe, maybe you even put some in your hair, and then you go to the A-E-Phi party? And then all of a sudden it's like all these baby sea turtles (except they're chicks, like with BOOBS)…

Axe has a long and storied history of ridiculousness, and as far as offensive commercials go, this one is far from the worst, but it's like their entire advertising team* has never met a woman. Or, they purposefully act like they ever have, but maybe that's because Axe is meant for pubescent stink-machines who use…

Last month, Axe launched a sophisticated new ad campaign called "Susan Glenn" that looked more like the sequel to Ruby Sparks than a commercial for a body spray most commonly found in sweaty Jersey Shore nightclubs and smelly middle school locker rooms.

A huge battle has been won in the fight for gender equality. While women still earn less than men doing the same jobs and there are groups working tirelessly to restrict our reproductive rights, we're finally free to douse ourselves in eau de frat boy. Axe, the cheap toiletry equivalent of the He-Man Woman Haters…

An Axe commercial in which lusty angels fall to earth, drawn by the scent of one random dude's body spray, first hit airwaves in February — but now it has been banned in South Africa. AdFreak reports that one guy, a Christian, complained about the ad, and deemed it offensive, "specifically over the idea that angels…

Australia's new Lynx Lodge is "a play on popular male fantasy, so the girls are there to hang out and ensure Lodge guests have fun," but apparently not have sex with them. Surprise: Lynx is the overseas name for Axe!

This French commercial demonstrates yet another benefit of Axe body spray: It's the only way to determine if there are hot camouflaged ladies hiding in your apartment and waiting to pleasure you. [Adrants]

According to this Argentinian ad, Axe body spray has a horrifying side effect: It may fuse your torso to your pull-out couch. Sure, you can stow lingerie-clad women in your ass, but being dickless may present a problem. [Animal NY]

We know the Axe Effect compels women to indiscriminately go home with any man who uses the foul-scented body spray, but in their new ad, the horny frat boy symptoms persist well into the morning after. [Ad Scientist]

It started quietly, with the appearance of black loofahs in the body wash aisle. Marketing body wash to men has proved to be quite lucrative, unleasing a wave of new ads determined to convince men their body wash is magic.

Jaime Pressly shows just how clean balls can get with the Axe Detailer (that's man for "shower pouf") in the Funny or Die video/Axe viral ad after the jump. The skit actually makes Schwetty Balls seem subtle and classy. [AdLand]

Three new ads for Lynx Bullet body spray (the U.K. version of Axe) show snowy imprints of figures fornicating in dark alleys and parking lots, with only one set of footprints leaving. Should we "be prepared" for non-consensual sex? [AdWeek]